I believe that there is no contest, game or competition or any activity that compares people or performance that isn't arbitrary or biased or unfair in some way or another.  I am talking about this world, of course, and even though many times these things are judged by some machine which is impartial there is always room for some kind of human error or interpretation of data or event and humans are incapable of not being subject to some kind of mistake or other.  We settle for the results because they are the best we can do in a human system.  But the way that we crown champions and rank performance and dole out awards simply is not perfect.  I guess that is one reason why we keep doing it year after year.  

 

In the spiritual realm and the quest for what we call perfection things function under a different set of criteria.  The competition is not between individuals, but with oneself.  And ultimately what one might call winning is simply the result of the effort over time.  No one will measure it.  It will just be what it is.  There will be no unfairness, no bias, no injury or mistake that will disqualify.  There is ample opportunity for restarts, missteps and mistakes.  What one finally and ultimately becomes is what it is.  But there is a time limit to the process, a day of probation as it is called.  When time runs out the judgement will take place and we will be left without excuse.  What we are then is what we have become all by ourselves.  (No one is ever really alone, but responsibility does start and end somewhere.)  No excuses, no do overs, no compromises and only strict, fair mercy and justice.  Kinda makes right now more important doesn't it?